Most public workers in Kwara while heeding the call for strike stayed at home and left their offices under lock and key.
Dele Moses, Ilorin
There was a substantial compliance with the call for an indefinite strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), in Kwara State as workers stayed away from most of the public offices in the state on Tuesday.
The leadership of the labour unions had directed that an indefinite industrial action should commenced from Tuesday across the nation.
The leadership took this decision to protest assault on the NLC president, Joe Ajaero, in Imo allegedly sponsored by the state government when he was in the state to fight for the welfare of workers.
Most public workers in Kwara while heeding the call for strike stayed at home and left their offices under lock and key.
The entrances leading to the state secretariat in Ilorin were under lock and key as also many other buildings housing public offices.
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Also, teachers in public schools around the state secretariat were not in school, some students were seen playing in field as their classes were also under lock and key.
The strike action did not affect most private schools as teachers were in their respective classes teaching the students.
The state NLC chairman, Comrade Saheed Murtala Olayinka, in an interview with newsmen, expressed delight on the level of compliance by workers in the state.
He warned that the NLC would picket any office that opens for work as he said that the union in the state would be firm in its compliance with the directive on the strike.
“In Kwara State there is a compliance on the strike with the latest development I was made to understand that we have some offices that are opened.
“We want to strategise how we are going to picket those offices. Strike has commenced fully in Kwara, we want to organize a picketing committee; we are trying to make ours to be solid,” he stated.
